Data synthesis, management, movement, and curation of large and complex datasets

User-centered design of interfaces and software

Exascale data analytics and visualization capabilities

Cybersecurity for science and energy

Our collaborators are from across the science disciplines, ranging from theoretical astrophysicists to computational and experimental bioscientists. The capabilities we build are driven by the needs of contemporary computational, observational, and experimental science projects central to the mission of the DOE Office of Science. Our portfolio includes projects in basic and applied research, advanced software development, and deployment to the scientific community. The science challenges we are helping to understand include: understanding carbon interactions between the atmosphere and the biome, interpreting results from trillion-particle space weather simulations, detecting extreme weather events in climate models, locating halo particles in accelerator models, understanding organism function, and detecting blobs in fusion experiments while the data is in transit.

First held in 1986, ISC High Performance is the oldest conference and networking event for the high performance computing (HPC) community. It offers a five-day technical program focusing on HPC technological development and its application in scientific fields and commercial environments.

June 2018

Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Machine Learning to Search Science Data

Data Science and Technology Department (DST) personnel along with National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) personnel have been developing new ways of developing metadata for science data. As scientific datasets increase in both size and complexity, the ability to label, filter and search this deluge of information has become a laborious, time-consuming and sometimes impossible task, without the help of automated tools.

Today, search engines are ubiquitously used to find information on the Internet but searching science data presents a different set of challenges. For example, Google’s algorithm relies on more than 200 clues to achieve an effective search. “The lack of real metadata labels eventually causes problems when the scientist tries to find the data later or attempts to share it with others,” says Lavanya Ramakrishnan, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division (CRD) and co-principal investigator of the Science Search project. “But with machine-learning techniques, we can have computers help with what is laborious for the users, including adding tags to the data. Then we can use those tags to effectively search the data.”

April 27, 2018

Berkeley Lab Hosts Neurodata Without Borders Hackathon

DST's Oliver Ruebel along with Andrew Tritt and Kristofer Bouchard organized the fifth Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology (NWB:N) project hackathon. Thirty-one neuroscience experts from across the country came to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on April 26 and 27 to participate in the hackathon. The event was organized in close collaboration with UC San Francisco’s Loren Frank and Eddie Chang and the broader Neurodata Without Borders (NWB:N) community.

“Some of the goals of this event were to promote the adoption of NWB:N software, train new users, work with users to integrate examples of their lab’s data into NWB:N, as well as facilitate communication between users, developers and project teams,” says Ruebel, a research scientist in CRD’s Data Analytics and Visualization Group. “The Berkeley Lab hosted hackathon is a reflection of our leadership in both the development and dissemination of the NWB:N.”

April 2018

ACM Honors Project Jupyter Team for Developing Open Source Tools for Interactive Computing

The Project Jupyter team has been honored with an Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Software System Award for developing a tool that has had a lasting influence on computing. Project Jupyter evolved from IPython, an effort pioneered by Fernando Pérez, an assistant professor of statistics at UC Berkeley and staff scientist in the Usable Software Systems Group in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Computational Research Division.

The award and a prize of $35,000 will be presented to the team at the ACM Awards banquet in San Francisco on June 23, 2018.
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April 16, 2018

The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Agency (NNSA) is searching for innovative algorithms to detect non-natural radiation sources in urban environments, which has important implications for national security and environmental remediation. So NNSA is taking a cue from academia, as well as companies like Netflix and Google, and hosting a data analytics competition. NNSA turned to researchers and engineers in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Computational Research (CRD), Nuclear Science (NSD) and Information Technology (IT) divisions to help build a Kaggle-inspired platform.

“We are creating a data competition portal. Because of the unique requirements of our stakeholders, we built a system inspired by Kaggle, but tailored to the needs of DOE research” says Shreyas Cholia, who leads CRD’s Usable Software Systems Group. “You can think of it as crowd-sourced machine learning and analytics, where users download test and training datasets, and apply their own techniques to predict a set of results. Results are then uploaded to the competition portal and scored against the canonical ground truth data.”

Cholia notes that the Berkeley Lab-developed platform includes a user-friendly web portal where competition hosts can upload datasets and setup a competition. In fact, the system can host several competitions at once. Competitors can download that dataset, perform their analysis and upload their results. The system will then score the techniques and update a public scoreboard so that the competitors can see where they stand. Each user can submit a number of techniques during the competition to try to improve their score.

Development of the portal included key contributions from Hamdy Elgammal (CRD), Yeongshnn Ong (CRD), Kai Song (IT), Krishna Muriki (IT) and Val Hendrix (CRD), who worked with NSD staff to build a robust and reusable platform.

March 27, 2018

Cyber Defense Tool Is an Early Warning System for Grid Attacks

A new tool will enable grid operators to better detect not only a brutal physical attack, but also a hacker probing for vulnerabilities

"The thousands of substations that are nodes in North America's electrical grid receive high-voltage energy from transmission lines that originate at power plants and step down that voltage so it can enter local distribution networks to power homes and businesses. Although distributed in nature, grid operators worry that the loss of just a few critical substations could trigger an outage that cascades across a region, potentially crippling a major urban center."

"Against those background events, a team of researchers working at the U.S. Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory completed work earlier this year on a project to design and implement a tool they say can detect cyberattacks and physical assaults on power distribution networks."

March 23, 2018

Into the Medical Science DMZ

"The 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is best known for preserving insurance coverage for employees who change or lose their jobs. But the law also includes a Security Rule and a Privacy Rule that protect confidential healthcare data for consumers.

March 15, 2018

The UC National Laboratory Fees Program targets funding toward strategic areas of research to address key challenges faced by both the state of California and the nation. For 2018, the program invested more than $25 million to seven research teams focused on climate science, cybersecurity, and national security through the social sciences.

Berkeley Lab is a co-recipient of four awards, including one for a cybersecurity project in Berkeley Lab's Data Science and Technology Department — from the University of California National Laboratory Fees Research Program — called, "UC-Lab Center for Electricity Distribution Cybersecurity," which is a partnership between UC Riverside, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, Lawrence Livermore, and the Berkeley Lab.

March 7, 2018

Combination of Old and New Yields Novel Power Grid Cybersecurity Tool

An innovative R&D project led by Berkeley Lab researchers that combines cybersecurity, machine learning algorithms and commercially available power system sensor technology to better protect the electric power grid has sparked interest from U.S. utilities, power companies and government officials.

Launched in 2015, the three-year project is now moving into the tech transfer stage, according to project lead Sean Peisert, a computer scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division and a cybersecurity expert. In addition to receiving funding support from the Department of Energy’s Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) program in the Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, the team has been working closely with key industry partners, including EnerNex, EPRI, Riverside Public Utilities and Southern Company.

February 5, 2018

The DST Scientific Data Management group has been working with NERSC personnel on advancements in HDF5. In particular, many of these advancements are designed to enable scientific data management in the exascale era. In this podcast, Suren Byna and Quincey Koziol discuss prepping HDF5 – one of the most parallel I/O libraries for high-end supercomputing systems – for exascale use.

January 30, 2018

Berkeley Lab Researchers Contribute to Making Blockchains Even More Robust - Hyperledger Iroha project notes that this work heavily inspired their protocol

Blockchain—a technology used for verifying and recording digital transactions—blasted into public consciousness with the rise of Bitcoin. But this tool could also transform the way governments, global industries and even science research operate. In fact, several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information.

In the last few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust. A paper describing BChain was published in the Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems. The researchers are also working with colleagues at Berkeley Lab and beyond to adapt this tool to support applications that are of strategic importance to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science.

December 18, 2017

Improved Neurodata Sharing Software Released

Neurodata Without Borders is a consortium of researchers and foundations with a shared interest in breaking down obstacles to data use and sharing. The group ultimately aims to standardize neurophysiology data on an international scale to ensure the success of brain research worldwide and accelerate the pace of discovery. It was initiated by the Kavli Institute in mid-2014 in the wake of the Brain Initiative announcement.

The 2.0 software version was developed by Oliver Ruebel (Data Science and Technology Department) and Andrew Tritt(Computer Science Department), in close collaboration with Kristofer Bouchard, also of Berkeley Lab, Loren Frank and Eddie Chang (UCSF), and the broader Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) community. The beta update was announced earlier this year and the team presented a poster of their work at the 2017 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington D.C. last month.

December 4, 2017

DST Projects Improve Scientific Workflow Capabilities on HPC Systems

A common staple of scientific work on HPC systems is a workflow (series of steps and programs). These workflows can be complex and achieving efficiency is often ellusive. Lavanya Ramakrishnan and Gonzalo Rodrigo of the Data Science and Technology Department have released new software that allows HPC scheduling systems to automatically address these issues. The software is the result of a two-year collaboration between staff in the lab’s Data Science and Technology Department. and the Distributed Systems Group at Umeå University in Sweden.

November 27, 2017

Ushizima recognized for outreach with lab director's award

Diversity and Outreach have been a passion for Dani Ushizima of the DST Department. She has been involved in a broad range of activities including Black Girls Code, Tech Women, Grace Hopper Conference, and many more. She was recognized with the Directors Outreach award “For her selfless and tireless efforts as an exemplary ambassador of science and goodwill, engaging new and emerging scientists around the globe, and sharing knowledge that improves others’ lives.”

October 16, 2017

Like other sciences, medical research is generating increasingly large datasets as doctors track health trends, the spread of diseases, genetic causes of illness and the like. Effectively using this data for efforts ranging from stopping the spread of deadly viruses to creating precision medicine treatments for individuals will be greatly accelerated by the secure sharing of the data, while also protecting individual privacy.

In a paper published Friday, Oct. 6 by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, a group of researchers led by Sean Peisert of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) wrote that the Science DMZ architecture developed for moving large data sets quick and securely could be adapted to meet the needs of the medical research community.

September 30, 2017

DOE 40th Anniversary Milestone: Berkeley Lab's FastBit

As part of its 40th anniversary celebration DOE highlighted DST's FastBit technology developed in the Scientific Data Management group. The 40 Years of Research Milestones included FastBit and cited John Wu's paper from 2005.

September 26, 2017

Berkeley Lab Aims to Strengthen the Cybersecurity of the Grid

As part of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) commitment to building cyber-resilient energy delivery systems, a new project led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will develop tools to detect and counter certain types of cyber attacks on the grid. The project has been awarded up to $2.5 million in funding over three years by DOE, one of 20 projects for cybersecurity on the grid announced recently.

July 3, 2017

DST has Three Papers on First Day at ACM HPDC 2017

Three DST members Bin Dong, Devarshi Goshal, and Gonzalo Rodrigo presented their work on scientific data processing, workflow management and scheduling at the ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) in Washington D.C.. on June 28 2017.

The ACM HPDC is the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. This was a competitive year, with a paper acceptance rate of 19%.

June 26, 2017

DST’s Weber Co-Authors EuroVis 2017 Best Paper

Gunther Weber of the Data Science and Technology Department (DST) was among the authors of “Nested Tracking Graphs,” which won the Best Paper award at EuroVis 2017. EuroVis is an annual international visualization symposium which was held June 12 - 16 in Barcelona, Spain this year.

May 9, 2017

FLUXNET2015 Dataset Highlighted in EOS

FLUXNET2015 — a new data set to keep a sharper eye on land-air exchanges. The latest update of the longest global record of ecosystem carbon, water, and energy fluxes, features improved data quality, new data products, and more open data sharing policies. DST's own Gilberto Pastorello was the lead author on the article.

May 3, 2017

Supercharging the computers that will save the world

Data Science and Technology postdoc Gonzalo Rodrigo while at Umeå University in Sweden developed new techniques and tools to manage high performance computing systems more efficiently. This in an effort to comply with the increasing demand to handle large amounts of data within research and allowing for advance simulations.

April 3, 2017

Lab Scientists Visit Kenya With International TechWomen Delegation

In February Lab scientists Daniela Ushizima, of the DST Department, and Teresa Williams took their first trip to Africa as part of a delegation organized by TechWomen, a unique mentoring and exchange program funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the Institute of International Education. The trip was eye opening and hugely inspirational for the women, both personally and professionally.

November 7, 2016

FLUXNET2015 Dataset: New and Last Update Released

The Fluxdata Team (including Gilberto Pastorello, You-Wei Cheah, Megha Sandesh, and Deb Agarwal from DST) has released the final update of the FLUXNET2015 dataset. To learn more about the dataset, visit https://fluxnet.fluxdata.org/.

September 16, 2016

The Value of Failed Experiments

"The 'Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER)' workshop series was established in 2012 with the purpose of publishing results for 'properly conducted experimental (cyber) security research, including both successful as well as unsuccessful experiments.' [This article] discusses the importance of failed experiments and evidence-based approaches in cybersecurity.'"

October 31, 2016

Working Group on Open Science Cybersecurity Risks Releases First Document Draft for Public Comment

Over the past several months, ESnet and the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence collaborated with research and education community leaders to develop a risk profile for open science to formally capture and benchmark this expertise, allowing other organizations to apply these best practices more broadly.

Today, the group is releasing its draft Open Science Cyber Risk Profile (OSCRP) and inviting comment from the research community. The OSCRP is designed to help principal investigators and their supporting information technology professionals assess cybersecurity risks related to open science projects.

July 12, 2016

DST's
Sean Peisert to lead project developing new data analysis methods for power grid

The project jointly led by LBNL and LLNL, Threat Detection and Response with Data Analytics, is part of a $220 million, three-year Grid Modernization Initiative launched in January 2016 by the Department of Energy to support research and development in power grid modernization.
The goal of this project is to develop technologies and methodologies to protect the grid from advanced cyber and threats through the collection of data from a range of sources and then use advanced analytics to identify threats and how best to respond to them. Specifically, the project team hopes to be able to distinguish between power grid failures caused by cyber attacks and failures caused by other means, including natural disasters, normal equipment failures and even physical attacks.

June 9, 2016

DST's Deb Agarwal profiled in honor of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month in June

When Deb Agarwal [the head of the DST department] first joined Berkeley Lab 22 years ago, she loved seeing the rainbow flag fly every June. But a number of years back, she noticed that it hadn't flown for a couple of years. No one seemed to think it was a big deal, but Agarwal felt otherwise, so she took it upon herself to make sure it was up every June....

May 19, 2016

DST's Oliver Ruebel developer on Berkeley Lab's OpenMSI, which has been licensed to ImaBiotech

Two years ago, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers developed OpenMSI - the most advanced computational tool for analyzing and visualizing mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) data. Last year, this web-available tool was selected as one of the 100 most technologically significant new products of the year by R&D Magazine. Now, OpenMSI has been licensed to support ImaBiotech's Multimaging technology in the field of pharmaceutical and cosmetic research and development. The Multimaging platform essentially allows researchers to combine and overlay different image files that have been acquired from different imaging techniques - like qualitative MALDI imaging, staining and immune staining—to increase confidence in data sets.

With cutting-edge MSI technology, scientists can study tissues, cell cultures and bacterial colonies in unprecedented detail at the molecular level. This information can lead to the discovery of new drug targets, diagnostic tests and more effective drugs. Beyond healthcare, MSI can be applied to industrial biotechnology, plant agriculture, veterinary medicine, forensic investigation, environmental toxicology, combatting terrorism, even exploring the universe. However as MSI datasets have grown from gigabytes to terabytes, basic tasks like opening a file or plotting spectra and ion images became insurmountable challenges for the average scientist.

To help researchers overcome these challenges, two Berkeley Lab researchers - Oliver Ruebel of the Computational Research Division (CRD) and Ben Bowen of the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division with support from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), conceptualized and developed OpenMSI. This work was part of a larger effort at Berkeley Lab to extend advanced computational techniques to science areas (and scientists) that haven’t benefited from them in the past. The tool, which makes highly optimized computing technologies available to researchers via a user-friendly interface, was born from the Lab's Integrated Bio-imaging Initiative, and initially developed with funds from NERSC and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program at Berkeley Lab. NERSC is a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

Because OpenMSI leverages NERSC's resources to process, analyze, store, and serve massive MSI datasets, users can work on their data at full-resolution and in real-time without any special hardware or software. They can also access their data on any device with an Internet connection.

"OpenMSI has really been a grassroots effort. We always believed that OpenMSI would be a transformational technology, so we worked with Berkeley Lab's Innovation and Partnerships Office early on to protect the Lab's intellectual property," says Ruebel.

"This licensing agreement is certainly a great achievement towards achieving our vision of transforming mass spectrometry imaging research and applications through computing, but we still have a ways to go to fulfill our vision and to fully develop OpenMSI and achieve broad adoption," adds Bowen.

ImaBiotech is a contract research organization that offers services in mass spectrometry imaging. Headquartered in Lille, France, the company also develops and implements new imaging technologies.

March 18, 2016

Open Positions in DST

DST has a a number of open positions right now -
Scientific Data Management Postdoctoral Researcher

The Scientific Data Management Research Group has an immediate opening
for a post-doctoral researcher to analyze storage systems and parallel
I/O performance and to develop novel object-based storage technologies
for upcoming exascale era.
Apply here

Usable Software Systems Group - User Research Postdoctoral Researcher

The Usable Software Systems Groups is looking for a postdoc in user research
with experience in ethnography, user studies, user analytics.
Apply here

Computer Security and Systems Data Analysis Postdoctoral Researcher

Looking for a post-doctoral researcher to perform data engineering and analysis of security and systems-behavior data, including use of machine learning and/or graph-theoretic approaches, in multiple domains. The position will analyze systems behavior in scientific computing environments, as well as security-related issues in cyber-physical system environments.
Apply here

Data Analysis and Visualization Open Positions

Openings for a research scientist, a CSE and a postdoc with expertise on scientific imaging, computer vision and machine learning algorithm development to perform pattern recognition applied to problems in material sciences, such as characterization of new composites and films for microelectronics.

January 19, 2016

Dani Ushizima Participated in Black Girls CODE Robot Expo

Last month, Dani Ushizima from the DST department (left) and Laleh Cote (Workforce Development & Education) joined forces with Black Girls CODE to support 214 girls of color (ages 7-17) at the Robot Expo. The girls participated in hands-on activities on robotics, heard from from STEM professionals, and learned about applications and uses for robots.

January 19, 2016

ESnet and the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) recently announced a partnership in developing cybersecurity strategy and research. CENIC is a nonprofit organization that operates the California Research & Education Network (CalREN), a high-capacity network with over 20 million users.
Sean Peisert of the Computational Research Division will be director of the new CENIC/ESnet Joint Cybersecurity Initiative. Peisert, who was also recently named as the chief cybersecurity strategist for CENIC, has worked extensively in computer security research and development. He will continue his work at Berkeley Lab and as an adjunct faculty member of the University of California at Davis.

December 31, 2015

FLUXNET2015 Global Carbon Flux Dataset Released

Today, eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange are being made routinely on all continents. The flux measurement sites are linked across a confederation of regional networks in North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, in a global network, called FLUXNET. This global network includes more than eight hundred active and historic flux measurement sites, dispersed across most of the world’s climate space and representative biomes. the FLUXNET-Fluxdata website
(https://fluxnet.fluxdata.org/), hosted at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA). Here the data that have been shared by the Regional Networks and processed and harmonized to share with the FLUXNET communities. Fluxdata website offers a number of tools in addition to the data access such communication and ideas sharing platforms, documentation, and support to the FLUXNET data users.
The FLUXNET2015 dataset is the first new global FLUXNET dataset since the LaThuile dataset in 2007. The team involved in preparing the data are spread across the towers and regional networks that contributed data as well as UC Berkeley (Housen Chu and Dennis Baldocchi), University of Tuscia (Dario Papale and Carlo Trotta), University of Virginia (Marty Humphrey and Norm Beekwilder), and Berkeley Lab. The DST personnel on the team are Gilberto Pastorello (data processing and preparation), Megha Sandesh (FLUXNET data portal), You-Wei Cheah (metadata and data preparation), and Deb Agarwal (data lead). Image credit - Housen Chu, UC Berkeley.

November 17, 2015

OpenMSI wins R & D 100 Award

OpenMSI is the most advanced tool for analyzing and visualizing mass spectrometry instruments (MSI) data that is available via web-browser. MSI technology enables scientists to study tissues, cell cultures, and bacterial colonies in unprecedented detail at the molecular level. Nowadays, MSI datasets range from tens of gigabytes to several terabytes. Thus, basic tasks like opening a file or plotting spectra and ion images become insurmountable challenges.
OpenMSI overcomes these obstacles by making highly optimized computing technologies available via a user-friendly interface. Because OpenMSI leverages NERSC resources to process, analyze, store, and serve massive MSI datasets, users can now work on their data at full-resolution and in real-time without any special hardware or software. They can also access their data on any device with an internet connection.
Ben Bowen of the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division and Oliver Ruebel of the Computational Research Division led the development of the technology. Several other DST and NERSC personnel were involved in the development of this technology.

November 2, 2015

Sean Peisert chaired a second ASCR-sponsored workshop on the subject of cybersecurity research for scientific computing integrity in June 2015.
The goal of this workshop was to define a long-term 10 to 20 year fundamental basic research and development strategy and roadmap regarding scientific computing integrity facing future high performance computing (HPC) and scientific user facilitates.
This report builds on the findings of a previous ASCR Cybersecurity workshop, to examine computer security research gaps and approaches for assuring scientific computing integrity specific to the mission of the DOE Office of Science. Subsequently, Peisert also compiled and edited the resulting workshop report.

July 27, 2015

Shreyas Cholia: Systems Engineer by Day, KALX DJ by Night

Shreyas Cholia is not just another software engineer.
If you've tuned into KALX lately, UC Berkeley's radio station, you may just have been enjoying the DJ sensibilities of DST's own Shreyas Cholia, a computational systems engineer who works jointly for CRD and NERSC. Cholia started as a volunteer at KALX in 2003, a year after joining the Lab, looking for a way to channel his love of music into an interesting extracurricular activity. Twelve years later, he's hosting his own KALX show every other Tuesday night. Read more in the recent article in Today at Berkeley Lab.

May 6, 2015

Dani Ushizima Receives DOE Early Career Research Award

Dani Ushizima of the Data Science and Technology Department has received a 2015 Early Career Research Program award from the Department of Energy's Office of Science. The award will fund research into developing new methods to help scientists extract more information from digital images produced by experiments studying materials such as ceramics and geological samples at the Department of Energy (DOE) facilities.
The work is important as facilities are deploying instruments that can produce digital images at much greater resolution and much more frequently than just a few years ago. Images are being generated so quickly that scientists are struggling to keep up and extract information contained in this data modality... Read more in the recent article on The Computational Research Division website.

April 28, 2015

Sean Peisert Chairs IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Sean Peisert is serving as general chair of the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 18–20, 2015 in San Jose, California. Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. This year's program committee has selected 55 research papers covering a wide range of topics. An estimated 500 attendees from around the world are expected. As in past years, there will be a poster session, a short talks session, and several workshops that will take place alongside the symposium, including workshops on privacy engineering, genomic security and privacy, language theoretic security, mobile security, and Web 2.0 security and privacy. Also at the symposium is a NITRD panel, featuring panelists from NSF, DHS S&T and other government agencies involved in creating the 2015 Federal Cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plan, as well as several "Birds of a Feather" sessions including discussions on network integrity, the Federal Cybersecurity plan and privacy in affective computing.

Contact: Deb Agarwal
Credits:This work is supported by the Director, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Additional sponsors include National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, and Microsoft Corporation.